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    In Stanley Milgram’s‚ The Perils of Obedience‚ Milgram states "obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to."(1) Milgram then shows how submission to that authority goes back as far as Abraham. He makes us look into ourselves and see why we obey these commands against our better judgment. Milgram then goes into detail about the experiment he set up at Yale University to test how much pain a person would inflict on another person just because they were ordered

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    info Emerald Article: The performance of Internet service provider (ISP) markets of Australia and New Zealand David Boles de Boer‚ Christina Enright‚ Lewis Evans Article information: To cite this document: David Boles de Boer‚ Christina Enright‚ Lewis Evans‚ (2000)‚"The performance of Internet service provider (ISP) markets of Australia and New Zealand"‚ info‚ Vol. 2 Iss: 5 pp. 487 - 495 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14636690010801672 Downloaded on: 11-01-2013 Citations:

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    Christina Kiaer has described the main aim of the constructivist movement as ‘to mass produce transparent utilitarian things for use in everyday life’. How adequate is this description? Constructivism is primarily an art movement that was based in Russia in the early 20th century. It had a considerable link to the Russian Communist Revolution. They merged the arts with modern technological rationalism for political and ideological uses‚ being essentially a form of Soviet propaganda. The theory

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    entertainment needs. Children are not the ones to blame for the belief that every aspect of this world is categorized according to genders because this idea has been in our society for ages and there has always been a debate on this topic. In Christina Hoff Sommers’ article “You Can Give a Boy a Doll‚ But You Can’t Make Him Play With It” published on the 6th of December 2012‚ in the newspaper The Atlantic she seems to be a firm believer that genders are different‚ each sex has separate needs and tendencies

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    In her article‚ “Teaching the Virtues”‚ Christina Hoff Sommers addresses that the main problem today is that kids are unaware of their moral values and are unable to define what is right and wrong. Sommers suggested the teachers to teach their students individual virtues as they are further away from their morality. Striking changes have taken place from the more directive teaching of right and wrong‚ by study and example‚ to situation ethics‚ dilemma ethics and other approaches that rationally

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    or conflict. Sarkeesian‚ who may not be a ‘heavy gamer’ (as Christina Hoff Sommers describes in her “Factual Feminist” videos) recognizes how women are portrayed with ‘demonizing’ characteristics within popular video games people play today and games played throughout history. Christina Sommers simply thinks that video games are essentially ‘owned’ by males for the reason that a higher percentage of ‘heavy gamers’ are males. In Sommers defense‚ there are plenty of female oriented jobs and activities

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    Essay By Ben Rager I read the debate on economist.com about women’s role in society. The two debaters were Linda Basch and Christina Hoff Sommers. Ms. Basch believes that women belong in the workplace because it helps stimulate the economy and helps them realize their full potential as well as it is good for families and communities. On the other side of the debate‚ Ms. Sommers believes that women don’t have an assigned place in society‚ meaning in a free society like the U.S. supposedly is‚ they can

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    and opinions on the same matter‚ for instance Jon Spayde argues in his short essay “Learning in the Key of Life” that informal education can lead to a rich and full life‚ one that formal education could possibly not reach; and then we have Christina Hoff Sommers‚ who carefully and logically contradicts the feminist belief that girls are treated poorly in schools and universities by arguing that they actually have far more advantages than boys in today’s society in her short essay titled “The War

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    “Knocked Up” and action-related examples such as “Bionic Women” and “Resident Evil” to support his argument. As a preface‚ Karnick references Christina Hoff-Sommers’ book “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men‚” which discusses how educational systems are suppressing masculinity‚ in connection to his claim. He notes that Hoff-Sommers observed that “school curricula […] are skewed toward girls’ strengths and away from those of boys.” Karnick feels that the same phenomenon

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    some others’ studies. All of the studies have indicated that single-sex school is not beneficial at all due to scientific research. In addition‚ it will inflates gender stereotyping which is not good at all. In second article‚ the author Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is strongly supporting single-sex schools. For evidence‚ she has provided the 2007 British study compared life outcomes which shows that single-sex school has benefits on "gender

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